You sir better keep throwing chairs than throwing fantasy numbers.

€450 before VAT is €550 incl. VAT. In Finland.

And it is MSRP - the price nobody is going to pay.

OMG, where are these people living?
If I want a cheap notebook, Asus just gave me the *second* option beside buying a used Thinkpad. The difference between the two?
The netbook won't roast my legs.

And anyway, recent numbers seem to indicate that netbooks finally the devices that *do* the much expected: Eating into the private desktop market.

The only problem for Intel, AMD and MSFT: Except for a few applications nobody needs the bleeding edge fast PCs anymore.

IMHO the Medion Akoya Mini looks the same except for the colour scheme.
The price is said to be about €399 including VAT.

Think about it, hobgoblin. SMDs are basically baked to the PCB.
The stove may be a good place if you keep temperature at say 80°C.

Taking out the battery will stop electrolysis and rinsing with purified water or isopropyl will remove particles that short circuit the electronics.

Oh and thanks for yet another reason to not buy an that iPhone.

@Shaun

Thanks for the video!

Incredible: The car is smaller than "Stanley" and still the front seats are free, rear seats most probably as well, the driving system is only in the trunk and not visible from the outside.

keese

I think it is a bad idea to discontinue the Mac Mini for multiple reasons.

Upgrade cycles for displays are considerably longer than for the main Unit.
Laptops are too brittle.
If you want a big box for internal add-ons, buy a Mac Pro.

The Mini is the entry. If it is perceived to be too expensive, make a slightly cheaper one, a Mac Micro. Moore's Law is your friend.
Improve the existing Mini slightly. Santa Rosa, a bit of RAM and FW800 are your friends.

IMHO killing the Mac Mini without replacement will trigger a negative network effect. No come on drug, no upgrade.

OK. Let's stop looking at the exterior of proposed phones and get things in a perspective.

One month after announcing the Apple iPhone carriers start bitching about too many platforms. Remember the iPhone runs on yet antoher OS called Mac OS .

It must be ironic that Nokia killed S90 in the cradle and abandons S80 in favour of S60.

What is this Google phone then?

IMHO it's a mobile terminal. Terminal in the 60's sense.
All the computing and data is on the server.
Now the big question for acceptance is: who owns the servers?

So we have distinct approaches for applications on smartphones now:

3rd parties including individuals shall develop (Symbian, ...) apps to be run on the phone

Apple developes apps to be run on the iPhone - maybe carriers also

Google has apps on their server (already).

I honestly do not know why you make such a fuss about it.

"[Nintendo's Wii] could be considered an impulse buy more than anything else"

For his ilk simply translates into "PS3 is too expensive."